Bob Wenzel, who was Rutgers' basketball coach from 1988 through 1997 (and was at the helm for the team's last NCAA Tournament appearance), confirmed he did watch the Scarlet Knights' lose by 61 points to Louisville earlier this month. And he felt the same way most fans did.

"That was embarrassing, for anybody who's a Rutgers fan," he told NJ.com. "You try to forget those things as soon as you can. Internally, you try to use that as motivating factor."

Sounded like Wenzel was still thinking like a coach. He's spending Thursday and Friday this week as an NCAA Tournament analyst on Sirius XM's Mad Dog Sports Radio alongside Chris Russo. And it sounded like he's been keeping an eye on the program he once led.

He thought the move to the Big Ten will be a tough one, but Rutgers has a good bench boss leading the way. "It'll be a bigger challenge, I think," he said. "It's not going to be easy. Eddie [Jordan] is the right guy, he'll do well."

As for getting the program on the right track after the Mike Rice scandal? "The big thing is getting a culture that will be good, and that will be attractive to players," Wenzel said. "Building the culture is one thing, and in the meantime you have to win some games and develop the players that you have and make them better, develop chemistry, the coaching part."

"It was so visible and it was so national that for him to coach again, whatever college hires him, it's going to have to be an athletic director and administration that is very confident and secure in their own place and their own situation because they're going to get a lot of criticism. But we're a forgiving society," he said.

Regarding the current tournament he's analyzing with the host known as Mad Dog, he was really impressed with Pittsburgh and thought they could challenge Florida, who looked shaky against Albany on Thursday. "That game is a little dangerous for them," he said of the Gators. He also thought Oklahoma State and Gonzaga, a second-round matchup on Friday, would be a game to watch.

He'll get a chance to analyze the action with Russo, whom he's known for decades after they both got their respective starts in Jacksonville. But he doesn't think he's like Russo's former partner at WFAN, Mike Francesa.